St. Agnes Home & School Meeting

Minutes

November 6, 2007

 

Members Present:  Julie Viorel, Kathy George, Glad Eyerman, Kris Schomaker, Denise Walsworth, Jeanne Skahan, Jenny Pendleton, and Sherry Marler.

 

President’s Report:

            Kathy has completed the Boo Fest information binder for next year’s chair. The event was a huge success with a lot of good feedback from families who attended.  The families attending and the volunteers liked that Boo Fest had been scaled back and simplified. Kathy and Beth Byers have cleaned out all the Boo Fest storage containers and stored them away for next year. Even though it is not a fundraiser, Boo Fest had a $400 profit after all expenses.

            Scrip is going strong with 14 new families joining in September.  We want to encourage all families to participate in this no selling fundraiser.   There will be flyers in the family envelopes that will encourage parents to use scrip for their holiday shopping. After the Christmas break Kathy will be introducing “Shop with Scrip” which is a way parents can get on the GL Scrip website and fill out their order forms.  The orders will be held on the site until Beth accesses them on Monday.  Parents who do their orders on the website will still need to send their check to the school before the order can be placed.  Kathy will be sending out detailed information on how this ordering procedure will work. This will not only save time but also paper expense as well.  There will be some type of promotion for scrip in February to encourage families to continue to use scrip after the holidays.

            Home room parents are reminded about Christmas craft reimbursement.  Each class is allotted $3.00 per student from Home and School. Any expenses over that amount will be covered by the Home room parents.

            The date for the spring system wide fundraiser Denim & Diamonds has been set for March 29.  We need parents to help by being the St. Agnes representatives who will work with the other Catholic schools to coordinate this event. If you are interested please contact Kathy George.

            Beth Byers has updated the Home & School link on the St. Agnes School website.  Please go to this link for all the latest Home & School information.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

            Jenny passed out the latest financial reports for the Home & School.  The only two outstanding expenses are spirit wear orders, with one of the orders being from last year.  We are still waiting to get these invoices from the company so that the expenses will be cleared.

            Scrip is providing St. Agnes Home & School with a steady income which makes it possible for us to not have fundraisers that involve selling.  We will be sending out flyers soon to encourage parents to donate to the annual Teacher’s Purse.

            Box Tops for Education earned $561 so far this year.  This amount is more than the total for all of last year.  Denise will be planning a special contest/promotion for the spring semester Box Top drive.

 

Catholic Schools Week:

            The theme for Catholic Schools Week is “Touching Hearts, Inspiring Souls”.  The week will start on January 26 with the annual Trivia Night to benefit our school library. There will be events and activities planned for the entire week including a teacher appreciation lunch and the classroom art raffle.  Open House will be on Wednesday, January 30.

Christmas Service Project:

            Home & School is considering a community service project for Christmas.  After much discussion it was decided that Kathy will call different agencies in town to see what might be a good fit for our school families. There will be more information coming out in the family envelopes.

 

The next Home & School meeting will be held January 8th at 8:15 at the school. All parents are encouraged to attend.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Julie Viorel, Secretary